UC3M ranked among the top Spanish universities in productivity
According to the U-Ranking 2016
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) holds third place in Spain in productivity according to the U-Ranking 2016, developed by the BBVA Foundation and Ivie (the Valencian Institute of Economic Research) which analyzes the performance of 61 public and private universities.
The 2016 ISSUE (Synthetic Indicators of the Spanish University System) Report on the U-Ranking presents the results of universities in function of their performance in three areas: teaching, research and innovation, and technological development. For this purpose, it corrects for the effects of different institution size to make them comparable with one other. Accordingly, it provides a ranking in each area and for all university activities.
UC3M holds third place in Spain in the general rankings for productivity (ISSUE-P), together with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad de Barcelona and Universidad de Navarra. The top spot is held by Universidad Pompeu Fabra and Autónoma de Barcelona, with Politécnica de Cataluña and Politécnica de Valencia in second place.
U-Ranking web enables personalized rankings to be compiled comparing more than 2,700 official university bachelor degree programs from 831 schools and faculties corresponding to 61 universities (48 public and 13 private ones) that represent 95% of the Spanish University System in terms of the number of undergraduate students.
Methodology
The ranking analyzes four areas– resources available, output obtained quality, and internationalization of activities - in teaching, research, and innovation. Along these lines, 25 indicators are taken into account, such as: the faculty member per student ratio, the evaluation rate and the success rate of students, the cut-off marks, the percentage of international students, competitive research projects, doctoral theses completed, the quality of citations in publications, European research funds, income from licenses, number and quality of patents, and funding from international contracts, for example.
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